The Duke love story is actually quite sad that. He kept marrying wrong women. Ravi & Camilla's was marrying the duke for his money because she no longer can bear living in poverty (there was a problem with Camilla's real father, more to that later). But even after she passed away, the duke adopted & raised Ravi & Camilla.
Duke 1st wife (Ludville's mom) is actually from the immortal cult. This cult was mentioned previously. So the immortal cult, move their spirit, to another body of host so the spirit can keep on living and living. The new body host need to be blood related OR they emotionally attached to the spirit owner. The cult mission is take over whole nation. They already infiltrated so much to high society/aristocracy. You might suspect when the hunting competition, the prince was almost killed, the perpetrator is actually the other prince who his body already robbed by the cult. His spirit is only strutting around. The spirit of the victims, unlike other spirit Camilla ever met. These spirits have lost all their will. They don't response to anything even if Camilla tried to help them.
Ok back to 1st Duchess, she was from the cult, she didn't love the duke. Her mission is to take over Ludville's body to be given to higher ranking elite member cult. Cult then realized, 1st born son of the duchy (including pietro & arsian) are all protected by divine power which is impossible to take over the body. 1st Duchess then grew to love her son. But she realized she was pregnant with Rania. Rania body will be taken over by the cult because she wasn't protected by divine beast. She didn't wanna hurt Ludville & the duke so she ran away and faked death.
Mind you, they both lived in hiding for years, afraid of being catched by the cult. Then, 3 years ago, cult found them and killed 1st duchess. Rania body is taken over. Real Rania is sweet person, her spirit will meet Camilla and she actually hope they could become sister, alas she died before that could happen.
Fake Rania will live in the dutchy, she will try to take camilla's place as favorite daughter & sister. But Ludville felt something off so he doesn't really like her, while Ravi is tsundere who only care for Camilla. I forgot how the fake is exposed or died, only remember Camilla meeting Rania real spirit.
The Duke love story is actually quite sad that. He kept marrying wrong women. Ravi & Camilla's was marrying the duke for his money because she no longer can bear living in poverty (there was a problem with Camilla's real father, more to that later). But even after she passed away, the duke adopted & raised Ravi & Camilla.
Duke 1st wife (Ludville's mom) is actually from the immortal cult. This cult was mentioned previously.
So the immortal cult, move their spirit, to another body of host so the spirit can keep on living and living. The new body host need to be blood related OR they emotionally attached to the spirit owner. The cult mission is take over whole nation. They already infiltrated so much to high society/aristocracy. You might suspect when the hunting competition, the prince was almost killed, the perpetrator is actually the other prince who his body already robbed by the cult. His spirit is only strutting around. The spirit of the victims, unlike other spirit Camilla ever met. These spirits have lost all their will. They don't response to anything even if Camilla tried to help them.
Ok back to 1st Duchess, she was from the cult, she didn't love the duke. Her mission is to take over Ludville's body to be given to higher ranking elite member cult. Cult then realized, 1st born son of the duchy (including pietro & arsian) are all protected by divine power which is impossible to take over the body. 1st Duchess then grew to love her son. But she realized she was pregnant with Rania. Rania body will be taken over by the cult because she wasn't protected by divine beast. She didn't wanna hurt Ludville & the duke so she ran away and faked death.
Mind you, they both lived in hiding for years, afraid of being catched by the cult. Then, 3 years ago, cult found them and killed 1st duchess. Rania body is taken over. Real Rania is sweet person, her spirit will meet Camilla and she actually hope they could become sister, alas she died before that could happen.
Fake Rania will live in the dutchy, she will try to take camilla's place as favorite daughter & sister. But Ludville felt something off so he doesn't really like her, while Ravi is tsundere who only care for Camilla. I forgot how the fake is exposed or died, only remember Camilla meeting Rania real spirit.